Stanley Old College Gate, North Biggar Road, Airdrie is a Grade B listed building in the North Lanarkshire local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 21 March 2002. Gateway fragment. 3 related planning applications.

Stanley Old College Gate, North Biggar Road, Airdrie

WRENN ID
late-soffit-elder
Grade
B
Local Planning Authority
North Lanarkshire
Constituency
Airdrie and Shotts MP: Kenneth Stevenson (Lab)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
21 March 2002
Type
Gateway fragment
Address
Stanley Old College Gate, North Biggar Road, Airdrie, ML6 6EJ
OS grid reference
NS 769 656
Coordinates
55.86867, -3.96844
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

The Old College Gates, dating from 1636, are part of the entrance gateway that was moved from the Old College in Glasgow. The structure features two rubble piers that support a stone lintel and a strapwork pediment. A weathervane, added later, sits at the apex of the gate, which is located within the boundary of lot 5.

Local climate

Stanley Old College Gate, North Biggar Road, Airdrie sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,160 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 90% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 76% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 58 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 97% of listed buildings. Of these, 34 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.2°C per decade since 1991.

Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.

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